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Zombie Studios creative director departs to join MLG
Major League Gaming has hired Zombie Studios' Jared Garritzen (Blacklight: Retribution) to serve as the company's new vice president of publishing and developer relations.
May 29, 2014
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Sony switches up PlayStation Plus, with 2 free games per platform a month
Sony has revealed that starting in June, each platform it currently supports with PlayStation Plus -- PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita -- will get two free games a month.
May 29, 2014
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Major game magazine publisher Future to cut websites, 170 staff
As part of a major restructuring effort, the publisher of Edge, PC Gamer, and GamesRadar aims to cut staff, sell off magazines, and consolidate its editorial teams.
May 29, 2014
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Nix Hydra nets $5 million in funding for mobile games for women
The two-year old Los Angeles studio has scored 9 million downloads for Egg Baby -- and now millions of startup dollars.
May 29, 2014
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EA shuts down Mythic Entertainment
The MMO studio (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) and creator of the much-maligned mobile Dungeon Keeper reboot has been shuttered, EA confirms.
May 29, 2014
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GDC Europe 2014 adds talks on League of Legends and going indie
Game industry veterans Don Daglow and Teut Weidemann are two of the latest additions to the speaker lineup for GDC Europe 2014, which takes place in Cologne this August.
May 28, 2014
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GDC launches this year's State of the European Game Industry survey
In order to record the state of the game business going into GDC Europe 2014, organizers are polling all European game developers for their thoughts on the future of the industry and their place in it.
May 28, 2014
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Microsoft has no plans to sell off its Xbox division
"I have no intent to do anything different with Xbox than we are doing today." - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that, despite calls from some investors to sell off the Xbox division, he currently has no plans to do so.
May 28, 2014
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Bethesda enters the free-to-play space with Battlecry
Bethesda Softworks has revealed its first step into the world of free-to-play games, with an online multiplayer melee combat game set in a post-apolcalyptic world.
May 28, 2014
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Former execs arrested for fraud at Atlus parent company
Reports indicate that Index Corporation's former CEO and president have both been arrested on charges of fraud.
May 28, 2014
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Desura launches Cheap End, a new monthly price war initiative
Desura today revealed Cheap End, a new initiative that will see developers lowering the prices of their games one weekend each month in a bid to outsell other games on the platform.
May 28, 2014
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Dead Space studio takes Battlefield in a new direction
One of Electronic Arts' big E3 reveals has been leaked a week early, forcing the company to show its hand. Battlefield Hardline is the next title in the Battlefield series, from the team behind the Dead Space franchise.
May 28, 2014